Re: [PATCH kernel v8 05/31] vfio: powerpc/spapr: Move locked_vm accounting to helpers

From: David Gibson
Date: Wed Apr 15 2015 - 02:10:36 EST


On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 04:30:47PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> There moves locked pages accounting to helpers.
> Later they will be reused for Dynamic DMA windows (DDW).
>
> This reworks debug messages to show the current value and the limit.
>
> This stores the locked pages number in the container so when unlocking
> the iommu table pointer won't be needed. This does not have an effect
> now but it will with the multiple tables per container as then we will
> allow attaching/detaching groups on fly and we may end up having
> a container with no group attached but with the counter incremented.
>
> While we are here, update the comment explaining why RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
> might be required to be bigger than the guest RAM. This also prints
> pid of the current process in pr_warn/pr_debug.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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